BAGUIO CITY — Local farmers here, as well as small entrepreneurs, are looking for strong partners to increase their income as most of them are hard up in having a stable and reliable income because of limited market information and market access.
It also gives the consumers and also the wholesalers hard time in finding the needed quantity and the quality of agri-products that they need for processing on a timely basis.
In line with this, the SM Foundation Incorporated mobilized various SM business units such as the SM Development Corp., SM Supermalls and SM Markets to ensure that local farmers under the “Kabalikat Sa Kabuhayan” program have venues where they can sell their produce.
This aims to augment the absence of critical supporting functions, such as infrastructure and service provision, farmers struggle to transform their traditional subsistence farms into a feasible commercially oriented production.
“From training KSK participants in practicing sustainable farming technologies via technology transfer and product development, SMFI, together with various SM business units used the power of collaboration to create farm-market linkage — which intends to create a powerful driver of rural poverty reduction,” the foundation said.